Who oversees parole in Mass? What motivates decisions? Does the outcome help the Commonwealth? Will the addition of another career prosecutor tilt the Mass parole board away from second chances? It was quite a show in Room 157 of the … [Read more...]
BINJ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE STORY ON NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE NECN INTERVIEW via New England Cable News: What is Restorative Justice and How Was It Applied in Arlington? An Arlington, Massachusetts police lieutenant who was put on paid leave after writing a column filled with … [Read more...]
RESTORATIVE RUCKUS
Arlington’s attempt to mitigate a police department controversy causes more distress for some concerned residents “It’s time we forget about ‘restraint,’ ‘measured responses,’ ‘procedural justice,’ ‘de-escalation,’ ‘stigma-reduction,’ … [Read more...]
BINJ REPORTING HIGHLIGHTED NATIONALLY
It's never easy to get the word out about our stories as a small local reporting incubator, especially since Facebook has been blocking us from boosting posts due to what the social media site claims is the overly political nature of our work. That's … [Read more...]
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE
The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end the bad deal Beacon Hill made to trade the death penalty for natural life sentences. In 1997, after a string of gruesome … [Read more...]